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...Side Tennis Club of Providence, R. I., in the first home match of the season, the visitors winning 5-4 as the result of superior steadiness. The Colgate match had to be cancelled because of rain, but on the fourth of May, Williams was beaten 5-1 on the Longwood covered courts, while M. I. T. succumbed by the same score on the Divinity courts three days later...
...defeated 6-0 at Cambridge in the second clean-sweep of the season, but the net-men lost to Dartmouth 4-2 in the fourth and last defeat of the season when the two teams met at Hanover on May 20. Pennsylvania was defeated 5-1 on the Longwood covered courts a week ago today, but here as in the Williams match the victors were at a handicap because of the indoor courts...
Rain caused the University tennis team to move from the Divinity courts to the Longwood covered courts at Chestnut Hill yesterday afternoon and this fact, was, without doubt, responsible in part for the ease with which the Crimson defeated Pennsylvania with the loss of but one of the six matches played. In four of the contests the second set was won by a closer score than the first and it is probable that, the visitors would have given the Crimson a hard fight had they been more accustomed to the strange conditions of the indoor courts...
...second University tennis team will face one of its hardest tests of the season when it meets the second team of the Longwood Cricket Club at 4 o'clock this afternoon on the courts at Chestnut Hill. The club team is made up of veterans, chief among whom is Mr. Josiah Wheel wright 7.0. a well-known player in many local tournaments. From the second team's record this year it is extremely doubtful if it can defeat the older men, but test matches during the past week have resulted in several changes...
Yesterday's match with the Longwood seconds was postponed until Thursday of next week as the courts were too soft to be used...